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1. Swine Flu: To Vaccinate Or Not?
Dr Marc Girard, MSc, MD, France, works as a
consultant for pharmaceutical firms, including
manufacturers likely to have an interest in
influenza pandemic
A positive consequence of the swine flu story could be a radical reappraisal of the ferocious antagonism between vaccine promoters and antivaccinationists. This time, by dint of ignoring the basics of drug development, things went too far – and everybody may notice. It is time now to go back, to understand that vaccines are drugs amongst others, with their potential of hazards and the inherent requirement of a cautious assessment regarding their benefit/risk ratio. It is time now to stop considering that vaccines must be beneficial and that they cannot be risky. It is time to require that the elementary principles of drug development cannot be so grossly ignored as they are nowadays as far as vaccines are considered. It is time to recognize that human body is not a bin for the dangerous gadgets that, through lack of professionalism, Big Pharma develops instead of useful drugs.
Swine Flu: To Vaccinate Or Not - Dr Marc Girard, MSc, MD, France
2. Breakthrough Science For M.E. Millions After Decades Of Chronic Abuse And Neglect
The symptoms are disabling tiredness, irritable bowels, intense headaches, depression and cognitive dysfunction. Yet for years many doctors argued that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome didn't exist. They refused even to dignify it with the name previous sufferers preferred – Myalgic encephalomyelitis. ME, they said, was just "me" writ large and dismissed it as yuppy flu. In the event the flu has lasted longer than the yuppies did. Some four million people suffer from it in the United States alone. Now two potential avenues for cures come along at once. Researchers in Utah claim to have discovered the gene involved. Another team in Nevada have found compelling evidence that a retrovirus, like HIV, might well be implicated. Scientists could be on the brink of a breakthrough. We must hope that they are. That would – at least – go some way to compensating for the shameful manner in which sufferers were treated for so long by the medical profession.
Independent Leader & Steve Connor, Science Editor - The Independent
Related Links:
* The New Journalism - Challenging The Status Quo, page 3, The Case Of Ean Proctor
Professor Simon Wessely in Witch Finder General action in the lives of ME/CFS labelled children
Jane Bryant, National Vaccine Information Center Conference Speech, United States of America
* Most cases of chronic fatigue syndrome linked to virus
Richard Alleyne, Daily Telegraph
* Virus Is Found in Many With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Denise Grady, New York Times
3. Girl Brain Damaged After Cancer Jab
In Britain, a teenage girl has suffered from seizures and brain damage after taking the Cervarix cervical cancer vaccine. This is one of many cases related to the vaccine. Her mother told The Sun, “She was such a lovely, happy-go-lucky girl, now she is just a shell. I really feel she has been used as a guinea pig. I don't think there is enough evidence that the vaccination programme is safe - this all happened days after Stacey was given the vaccine. We don't have any other explanation for what triggered her brain injury."
Andrew Moran, Digital Journal
4. Historic Legal Victory For Gulf War Families in Britain
WIDOW'S MIGHT: Sandra Kozac campaigned for tragic Michael
A HISTORIC legal victory for a Scottish widow has paved the way for relatives of Gulf War Syndrome victims to receive a full military pension. In an unprecedented ruling, a military tribunal sitting in Edinburgh has declared his death was a direct result of his war service, despite coming 13 years after the end of the first Iraq conflict. Mr Kozak, who had 22 years’ naval service, had suffered from hypertension ever since he was given nerve gas protection (NAPS) tablets while serving on an ammunition vessel in the Gulf. He went on to campaign for compensation for Gulf veterans with serious health problems caused by the untested drugs, as well as a cocktail of other chemicals that troops came into contact with.
Ben Borland, Daily Express
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